Verbal Ability and Persistent Offending: A Race-specific Test of Moffitt’s Theory

Theoretical questions linger over the applicability of the verbal ability model to African-Americans and the social control theory hypothesis that educational failure mediates the effect of verbal ability on offending patterns. Accordingly, this paper investigates whether verbal ability distinguishes between offending groups within the context of Moffitt’s developmental taxonomy. Questions are addressed with longitudinal data spanning childhood through young-adulthood from an ongoing national panel, and multinomial and hierarchical Poisson models (overdispersed). In multinomial models, low verbal ability predicts membership in a life-course-persistent-oriented group relative to an adolescent-limited-oriented group. Hierarchical models indicate that verbal ability is associated with arrest outcomes among White and African-American subjects, with effects consistently operating through educational attainment (high school dropout). The results support Moffitt’s hypothesis that verbal deficits distinguish adolescent-limited- and life-course-persistent-oriented groups within race, as well as the social control model of verbal ability.     

古代中原地区与少数民族地区的赎刑制度探析

赎刑是中国古代独特的法律制度,中原地区的赎刑制度在秦及汉初具有替代刑和独立刑种的双重属性,唐代以后赎刑发展成为刑罚适用的一般原则。罚金刑在中国古代法律中多处于与赎刑合而为一的并存状态。以藏区“赔命价”制度为代表的少数民族地区的赎刑制度,在古代以成文法的形式出现,在现代则表现出明显的和解性质。赎刑制度中的价值理念和合理规则,对于我国刑罚替代措施和死刑的司法控制等方面仍有借鉴意义。     

俄罗斯转轨时期的产物:俄罗斯新贵

俄罗斯新贵是前苏联解体后,俄罗斯向市场经济转轨过程中迅速暴富起来的人。他们追求西方的生活方式,过着奢侈腐烂的生活,道德发生了扭曲。他们的暴富没给俄罗斯国家和社会带来什么好处,反而给俄罗斯青年心理和价值观造成很坏的影响。如何运用法律手段治理这些人的违法行为,如何唤醒被他们毒害的青年人的道德理性和爱国主义思想,是俄罗斯政府和社会急需解决的大问题。     

DOES IMPRISONMENT ALTER THE LIFE COURSE? EVIDENCE ON CRIME AND EMPLOYMENT FROM A NATURAL EXPERIMENT

Ex‐prisoners consistently manifest high rates of criminal recidivism and unemployment. Existing explanations for these poor outcomes emphasize the stigmatizing effects of imprisonment on prisoners seeking postrelease employment as well as the deleterious effects of imprisonment on prisoners’ attitudes and capabilities. However, these explanations must be distinguished from selection effects in the criminal sentencing process, which also could explain some or all of these poor outcomes. To distinguish between criminogenic and selection explanations for ex‐prisoners’ postrelease experience, I analyze data from a natural experiment in which criminal cases were assigned randomly to judges with sizable sentencing disparities. Using these exogenous sentencing disparities, I produce unbiased estimates of the causal effects of imprisonment on the life course. The results of this analysis suggest that selection effects could be sufficiently large to account for prisoners’ poor postrelease outcomes because judges with large sentencing disparities in their use of imprisonment had similarly high caseload unemployment and criminal recidivism rates.     

转型期中俄贫困问题比较及反贫困意义的共性分析

中俄两国曾是世界上最大的两个社会主义国家 ,转型期都经历了此前不曾遇到的各种复杂问题。尽管两国选择的转型模式不同 ,转型期经济发展速度也存在着明显差异 ,但目前两国却共同面临着贫困问题。在绝对贫困与相对贫困、贫困数量与贫困发生率、贫困的地域分布以及基尼系数等问题上 ,中俄两国具有明显的对比空间。反贫困是中俄两国转型期的共同选择。它对于维护两国的政治秩序、保障经济持续发展、提高“生活质量”的目标原则具有十分重要的现实意义。     

Human Rights and Unfair Dismissal: Private Acts in Public Spaces

This article addresses the termination of employment because of the conduct of the employee in her leisure time, in the light of the right to private life. It explores the impact on the retention of employment of activities taking place outside the workplace and outside working hours, and argues that the approach of UK courts and tribunals, which is based on a primarily spatial conceptualisation of privacy, is flawed. A fresh approach to privacy, resting on the idea of domination, is proposed, which is sensitive to the particularities of the employment relationship. Considering the fairness enquiry in dismissal, it argues that off‐duty conduct may lead to lawful termination of employment only if there is a clear and present impact or a high likelihood of such impact on business interests; a speculative and marginal danger does not suffice. It further proposes that a particularly meticulous test is appropriate when certain suspect categories, such as the employees' sexual preferences, are at stake.     

谈西部高新技术企业系统型培训模式的选择

科学合理的培训工作，必须建立在正确的培训模式的基础之上。培训模式是为提高人们实际工作能力而形成的一种稳定的、有组织、有计划的知识教育和技能训练形式，这种形式是理论性与现实性的统一。     

论“生命教育”是建设社会主义核心价值体系的重要路径

生命教育是建设社会主义核心价值体系的具体体现与重要路径,这主要体现在三个方面:一是生命教育提升了受教育者价值创造的认知水平与实践能力;二是生命教育提升了受教育者对核心价值体系的价值认同;三是生命教育提升了受教育者践行核心价值体系的主体能力。     

权利的张扬与追寻——2006年中国权利问题研究综述

2006年的中国权利研究,著述颇丰,学术研讨频率密集且范围广泛,呈现了多元化、立体化的趋势。人权研究生机勃勃,平等权是当下社会生活和权利研究中的一个关键词,农民、农民工等弱势群体的权利保护则是与平等权密切相关的热点问题。传统的权利研究继续深入,新兴权利的研究与日俱增,权利本位理论正在向现实论证扩展,有关权利的理论日益丰满。     

人生观教育：大学生思想政治教育的起点与归宿

高校思想政治教育一直都非常注重培养学生健康的、科学的人生观。面对当前大学生中存在的突出问题，人生观教育应该着重于加强“以人为本、关爱生命”的内容，着力于引导大学生认识生命的价值，尊重自己和他人的生命，努力提升自身生命的内涵和价值。加强大学生人生观教育，首先，思想政治教育工作者应努力树立“以人为本、关爱生命”的新型学生观；其次，要改进人生观教育的形式和内容，使人生观教育充满时代内容和强大的生命力。